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Art and Cartography: Six Historical Essays

The American Historical Review, 1989
The contributors--Svetlana Alpers, Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr., Ulla Ehrensvard, Juergen Schulz, James A. Welu, and David Woodward--examine the historical links between art and cartography from varied perspectives.
Anne Godlewska, David Woodward
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COMPUTER CARTOGRAPHY IN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes, 1983
The potential value of maps in historical geographical research has increased as a result of clearer understanding of the nature of maps and new developments in computer cartography. The computer has made possible the rapid transformation of appropriately organized sets of data into maps of many different types.
Leonard Guelke, Poh Chin Lai
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Analysis in historical cartography studies

Cartography, 1982
This paper is concerned to reinforce the case for the use of analytical techniques in historical cartography. The need for such analysis is conditioned by the requirements of authenticity and accuracy. A few simple analytical techniques are discussed including chemical analysis, dating by magnetic variation, geometric identification of projections and ...
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Georeferencing Historical Cartography: A Quality-Control Method

Cartographica, 2012
The use of historical cartography within a GIS environment to realize long-term change-detection studies of a certain area has become an established and fairly generalized practice. As is well known, the prerequisite condition for such analyses is the thorough rectification of the historical map's digital format.
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Historical Links between Cartography and Art

Geographical Review, 1980
IN a footnote to her study of the Renaissance polymath, Leon Battista Alberti, Joan Gadol rebuked a historian of science and cartography for denying the existence of a reciprocal relationship between Renaissance painting and cartography.' Although the position of the historian was extreme, his denial pointed to an aspect of the history of cartography ...
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Mapping Champlain's Travels: Restorative Techniques for Historical Cartography

Cartographica, 2010
Samuel de Champlain's travels through what would become New France have been extensively documented and mapped by geographers and historians today. As conventional cartographic depictions of the routes of a European explorer and colonizer, these maps portray the locational details of Champlain's journeys but omit the emotional geographies and the ...
Margaret Wickens Pearce   +1 more
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Computer assisted historical cartography: new opportunities for historical research

History and Computing, 1997
This article explores historical computer mapping technology and its implementation in research on the history of settlement of the southern parts of Western Siberia. As such, this research work breaks new ground given that historical GIS projects are still relatively novel in Russia.
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Historical cartography: cartographic sources in historical sciences

2003
Povijest i geografski prostor u kojem se ona odigrava, nerazdvojno su povezani. Koliko su povijesni događaji bili određeni prostorom u kojem su se zbivali, toliko su i povijesni događaji utjecali na budući razvoj prostora ostavljajući u njemu vidljive tragove prošlosti ali i naznake budućnosti.
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